Bohemian Rhapsody

Each day for the next 11 days I’ll be featuring one of our quilts from our book Country Girl Modern.  We’ll tell you the back story on each of the quilts over the course of a few days. If you are interested in pre-ordering our book, you can find that information here.

Today’s feature quilt is Bohemian Rhapsody.  I have to say, this one ranks up there high on the list of my favorite quilts from the book.

In fact, I would really like to make this one bigger and have it on my bed.  It’s not my typical style but honestly…I love, love, love it!

Kelli and I have been long time fans of Kaffe Fassett and Kathy Doughty.  We love their use of large scale prints.  We have longed to try making one of their quilts but just haven’t found the time or the fabric in our stash.  We have also noticed that the fabric trends are showing very visually graphic fabrics.  We wanted to be part of  that trend and design something using that style of fabric.

Like with the two previous quilts we showed you, we wanted a simple easy to construct quilt…but we wanted something fun.  That can be a hard combination…simple but fun.

Sitting at the computer to design this I started playing with half square triangle…that was a little too simple.  What could I do to “jazz” up those half square triangles…hmmm.  That’s when I thought to add another triangle on the turquoise part of the half square triangle.  What a fun way to add a step to the construction without adding much difficulty!!

I started playing with layouts and again….my old tried and true barn raising setting won out.  Now it was time for fabric selection.  As I said before, large scale prints aren’t something we have very in our stash.  Well it was Free Spirit Fabrics to the rescue.  They provided the fabric for this quilt.

Kelli cut the quilt out…I sewed it and did the machine quilting.  We had this quilt from start to finish in less than a week.

If you’re working with a beginning quilter or are a beginning quilt this would be a great quilt for you to give a try.  Most of the time the sewing is done by simply sewing on a line.

This is just one of the eleven quilts in our book.  If you’d like to order an autographed copy of our book check out this link to learn how to order it.  Stop back tomorrow and we’ll feature another quilt from the book.